But they maintained progress had been made in increasing recycling across the country.

Clarification

This article was amended on 14 September 2016. It previoulsy said that councils sent 338,000 tonnes of recycling to landfill. It cited the main reason for this as 'the cost involved to re-sort it'. Counsils collected over 11 million tonnes of recyling in 2014/15 of this, 338,000 tonnes was sent to landfill or incinerated because it was either not recyclable or contaminated (i.e soiled paper or card). It is not known how much of the 338,000 tonnes is made up of non-recyclable material. The former environment minister Roy Stuart was misquoted. He did not say it was absurd that Britain has so many different recyling bins. He thought it absurd that Britain has so many different recycling systems. The article said that Hull City Council took the drastic step of removing recycling bins. In fact it only removed a small percentage of recycling bins.